From the 1962 Donaueschingen Music Festival, a complete recording of Pierre Boulez’s “Pil Selon Pil” for soprano and orchestra, performed by Eva Maria Rogner and the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer. “Pil Selon Pil” which is translated as “fold by fold” or “crease on crease” is a piece in five movements, each based on poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. The first movement "Don" is based on "Don du poème"; the second movement "Improvisation I on Mallarmé" is based on the sonnet "Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui"; the third, "Improvisation II on Mallarmé" is based on the sonnet "Une dentelle s'abolit"; the fourth, "Improvisation III on Mallarmé" is based on the sonnet "A la nue accablante tu"; and the final movement, “Tombeau" is based on the poem of the same name. The works is mostly atonal in nature and only quotes from Mallarmé’s poems rather than use them in full. In a 1971 interview published by the” New York Review of Books”, Igor Stravinsky described “Pli Selon Pli” as "pretty monotonous and monotonously pretty"

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